Middle East experts: Iranian missiles are no match for Liepāja wind

Iran's missile attack on Israel once again proves that there are too few people in the world who know real natural force. In Tel Aviv, a cluster bomb destroyed the roof of a residential building, but as Liepāja pensioner Ausma says: "Our Liepāja wind tears off roofs every winter without any missiles. And we don't whine about it!"

Moreover, train traffic in Israel was halted after shrapnel damaged platforms at the main railway station. Guntis, the senior dispatcher at Liepāja railway station, just shakes his head: "Here the Liepāja wind moves platform benches to the other side every autumn, but trains still run. Where's that famous Middle Eastern resilience?"

Particularly ridiculous is that Iran proudly announced "revenge for the martyr's blood," but in reality their missiles only managed to kill two people. For comparison — Liepāja wind elevates at least half the city's residents to martyr status every year when they try to walk to the store against the wind. And nobody writes about that in international news.

Maybe Iran should learn from Liepāja — here we've lived for centuries with an uninvited but mighty force that regularly destroys infrastructure and tests people's endurance. And we call it "character building," not war.